Walking on the prosperous construction site, Lu Hanqiang said to Xu Jie, who was inseparable behind Zuo Jin: "The two of you immediately wrote a letter to Zhao Liang of the Beijing Commercial Bank, and asked him to immediately organize manpower to extend the branch of the commercial bank to western Liaoning, and you told him that I would leave him the largest façade in this Huludao Port, and let him select the most shrewd and capable subordinates to be the head of the commercial bank here." Then he said to Cheng Guoyuan: "You write to tell Wang Fang that he will immediately transfer elite soldiers and strong generals, and install the capable personnel of the Intelligence Department along the commercial houses that extend to western Liaoning, and ask him that in the future, all the intelligence collected by the intelligence department of these commercial banks in western Liaoning will be directly handed over to me first, and I must firmly grasp the dynamics of all the officials, gentry, businessmen and people in the entire western Liaoning, and I can't have a little action unfavorable to me in the rear when I am fighting desperately and bloodily in front of me."

Xu Jie and Cheng Guoyuan nodded approvingly, and agreed to this decision, now, whether it is Lu Hanqiang or his brothers, they naturally regard the Intelligence Department of the Commercial Bank as their own team, for Lu Hanqiang's arrangement, everyone doesn't think there is anything wrong, and Wang Fang will also have this mentality.

Xu Jie thought for a moment and then suggested again: "Do you also tell Zhao Liang and Wang Fang that where our army extends in the future, where they must send the post office and the intelligence department of the commercial bank, so that it will become a regular practice?" ”

Lu Hanqiang glanced at Xu Jie, who had ulterior motives: "This method is very good, just do it." Then he said to Kong Bangguo again, "Again, you write another letter to our Yili Bank in Beijing, and ask them to send someone over as soon as possible to set up a bank branch in Huludao Port, and in the future, the north and south will reach commerce, no else, just a foreign exchange business, which will make us make a lot of money, and this is also a supporting facility, as long as these facilities are complete, I think the prosperity here will not be too far." ”

For such an arrangement, Lu Hanqiang also has a reference. In later generations, a small city-state of Singapore, relying on transshipment trade and financial business, became one of the four Asian tigers, and it has been prosperous for a long time, and it is precisely because of this that Singapore, which has a sufficient economic foundation, now dares to call the mother country of a big country, and becomes the vanguard and mortal enemy. It's a pity that if Singapore exists now, Lu Hanqiang definitely has the idea to bring a large army to talk to him about what the state of parents is.

arranged the task given by Lu Hanqiang, Xu Jie suddenly mentioned: "My lord, on the mountain south of Huludao Port, is it also in accordance with the rules of Ping 6 to build a military fortress?" In this way, the safety of this port can be guaranteed, and I think the example of Juehua Island was there. ”

At that time, Juehua Island was deep inside the defense line of the Ming army in western Liaoning, and it was separated by the sea, which was extremely safe, and it was an important place to store the money and grain that the Ming Dynasty had worked so hard to transport to Guanning, and as a result, Nurhachi attacked the Daling River, Yuan Chonghuan could not defend it, and let Nurhachi rush across the strait from the ice to capture Juehua Island, killing thousands of people on the island, as well as hundreds of merchants, and emptied all the materials related to the later period of Juehua Island, of which there were millions of taels of silver alone.

Lu Hanqiang pinched his chin and thought about it, then shook his head and said, "There is no need for this, the matter of Juehua Island must not be born in front of our Fuliao army, if the few cities I built in front of it cannot block the attack of Houjin Emperor Taiji and let Huang Taiji hit Huludao Port, then there is no need for us to stick to this place anymore, just turn to cover and leave." ”

This is Lu Hanqiang's heart's words, no matter what he is doing now, he can be regarded as an active person, if he really lets Huang Taiji hit Huludao, his logistics base, then he really shouldn't mix, then the nearly 50,000 troops in his hands will become a noodle woman.

And now Lu Hanqiang is full of confidence that the headache should be Huang Taiji instead of himself, Huang Taiji should now make sufficient preparations to guard against his own attack, instead of wanting to attack himself, this is strength and confidence.

After arranging these things, Lu Hanqiang continued to walk on the hot construction site, looking at the various facilities that were constantly taking shape, and expressed satisfaction in his heart, because after all, the time was pressing, and it was still winter. It is unrealistic to want to pay attention to excellence, and slowly make up for it later. Of course, as soon as spring arrives, his attack on Huang Taiji will be launched, and he will not have the energy to take care of this economic development area anymore.

After intense busyness, the construction of Huludao Port has basically begun to take shape, of course, everything is still very simple, not simple, Li Quanyou brought the southern grain ship has long been waiting on the ocean that has just opened the sea, black pressure spread all over the ocean in the distance, and the sails are as dense as a forest.

Lu Hanqiang really admires the ability of the merchants in this world, as long as they give enough profits, the merchants will use the greatest, so that you can unimaginable ability and degree, to transport everything you need, especially this time from the south to Huludao by sea, it is much more convenient than the canal to transfer the Yellow River to Ping6, the freight is much less, and the reason why sea transportation can be realized is that Lu Hanqiang forced the Donglin Party to voluntarily abolish the effect of the sea ban.

Now sailing from the sea, except for the robbers, the officers and soldiers no longer dare to use their hands to loot, and it can really be described as unimpeded.

In fact, robbers at sea are easy to deal with, but the most difficult to deal with is the official army, because the robbers only need money, and the robbers are very fair, how much protection money each boat pays, it will completely let you pass smoothly, until the last resort, no one kills people to seize the ship, because the robbers point to this bowl of rice to eat, they firmly believe that the good people have been killed, who will rob in the future?

However, the officers and soldiers not only want to rob the goods, but also want human lives, the goods can be home, the heads can be rewarded and promoted, and the most important thing is that they can be destroyed, so the officers and soldiers are more terrible than the robbers.

There is another point, that is, through Xu Guangqi, he contacted Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, and established a relationship when he bought the red-clothed cannon, and Sun Yuanhua was in charge of the sailors of Dengzhou, Shandong, so Lu Hanqiang took special care of Sun Yuanhua and asked the sailors not to embarrass their caravans.

Whether it was out of integrity, or out of a good relationship with Lu Hanqiang, and continued to sell him a lot of arms to earn military expenses for Denglai, Sun Yuanhua agreed to Lu Hanqiang's request, so it was simply too peaceful to go from the canal to the sea and the Shandong coast.

With good publicity, safe and convenient shipping routes, and huge profits from the exchange of goods, the enthusiasm of the businessmen is soaring, and you can't stop it, so in the case that Huludao Port has not been built, a large number of southern merchants have blocked their homes.